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Queens | |
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Burgh o New York Ceety | |
Queens Coonty Inglis: Queens County | |
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Location o Queens shown in orange, includin its twa airports an their bundaries. | |
Coordinates: 40°42′15.0″N 73°55′4.0″W / 40.704167°N 73.917778°W | |
Kintra | Unitit States |
State | New York |
Coonty | Queens |
Ceety | New York Ceety |
Settled | 1683 |
Govrenment | |
• Teep | Burgh (New York Ceety) |
• Burgh Preses | Helen Marshall (D) |
• Destrict Attorney | Richard Brown |
Area | |
• Total | 461.7 km2 (178.28 sq mi) |
• Laund | 282.9 km2 (109.24 sq mi) |
• Water | 178.8 km2 (69.04 sq mi) |
Population (2010) | |
• Total | 2,230,722 |
• Density | 8,153/km2 (21116/sq mi) |
ZIP Code prefixes | 110--, 111--, 113--, 114--, 116-- |
Area code(s) | 718, 347, 917, 646 |
Website | Offeecial Wabsteid o the Queens Burgh President |
Queens is the eastmaist o the five burghs o New York Ceety. The lairgest burgh in aurie, an seicont-lairgest in population, it is coextensive wi Queens Coonty, an admeenistrative diveesion o New York state, in the Unitit States. It is an aw locatit on the wastren portion o Long Island.
Accordin tae the 2005 American Community Survey, immigrants comprise 47.6% o Queens residents. Wi a population o 2.3 million it is the seicont maist populous burgh in New York Ceety (ahint Brooklyn) an the tenth maist populous coonty in the Unitit States. It is an aa the naition's fowert-maist-densely populatit coonty (efter the coonties coverin Manhattan, Brooklyn an The Bronx). The 2.3 million figure is the heichest historical population for the burgh. Wur each burgh an independent ceety, Brooklyn an Queens wad be the kintra's third an fowert lairgest ceeties, respectively, efter Los Angeles an Chicago. Template:NYC boroughs Queens wis established in 1683 as ane o the oreeginal 12 coonties o New York an wis supposedly named for the Queen consort, Catherine o Braganza (1638–1705), the Portuguese princess who marriet Keeng Charles II o Ingland in 1662.
The borough is considered ane o the mair suburban burghs o New York Ceety. The neighborhuids in eastren Queens hae a leuk an feel seemilar tae the borderin suburbs o wastren Nassau Coonty. In its northwastren section, housomeivver, Queens is hame tae mony urban neighborhuids an several central business destricts. Long Island Ceety, on the Queens' waterfront athort frae Manhattan, is the steid o the Citicorp Building, the tawest skyscraper in New York Ceety ootside o Manhattan, an the tawest biggin on geographic Long Island.